We had it drilled into our heads as to how to behave properly when we were around compnay....

(BTW, Leftisright's post in another thread about insisting that dinner be together as a family with no TV brought this memory back)...

So, I am so into this girl....

Right out of high school...

Beautifull, in a long straight haired seventies way complete with the tight ribbed sweater, no what I mean....

Anyway, we go to this restaurant and I am smokin', making her laugh, talking about current events (How bout that Nixon) and generally behaving in a way that I thought would at least lead to second base....

So we order the food, chat and then the food is brought before us.....

Me, being well trained and all, wait until everything is put down before me before I start to eat....

this girl, well she attacks her food, using her fork like she was stabbing westward and holding her knife like she was going to cut someones heart out....

Well, whatever chance at chub went south as I watched her wolf down her food like there was someone gonna come and take it away from her....

I ended up droppin her off at her house, a purely Platonic kiss ended the evening and I never dated her again....

My family raised me with all of the grace of a southern woman. You often tease me about eating supper while you are eating dinner but as you know I am old fashioned in some quaint ways. I always knew which fork, spoon, knife, glass and dish were to be used for what and in which order.

There were things that were not talked about in public or in the presence of the opposite sex (oops - saying 'sex' wasn't allowed either).

I took Home Ec two years in a row. My dressmaking skills were so acute that one of the jobs that I did very successfully was to teach adults to cut and sew clothing for themselves. Making a dress with a sewn-down box pleated skirt, set-in sleeves and stand up collar was very precise work. I was a perfectionist, it had to 'look' right and 'fit' right!

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